On August 22, Obama, a duplicitous unindicted war criminal, described
the above images as "basic and joyful longing for human freedom."

On August 25, Secretary of State Clinton, another unindicted war
criminal, said "(t)he events in Libya this week have heartened the
world."

Let them and their conspiratorial allies go to Tripoli, Brega, Misrata
and other ravaged Libyan cities and see for themselves.

Let them view streets filled with mangled corpses, blood, agony on the
face of the living, destruction everywhere in sight, and human misery
beyond what scales can measure.

Let them see firsthand the fruits of their victory. Let them taste,
smell, and witness Tripoli's growing humanitarian disaster.

On August 27, Russia Today reported "widespread shortages of fuel, water
and electricity, and humanitarian aid supplies are yet to reach the
country. The situation on the ground is very close to a catastrophe."

Destruction, garbage and maggot-infested corpses fill streets.
Communicable and other disease outbreaks may follow, including from
contaminated water, soil, and air.

Let them imagine hidden rage and the popular will to resist this and
much more.

Let them consider what may, in fact, unfold ahead - continued
resistance, struggle, and commitment for real freedom, not serfdom under
NATO pillagers.

Not banker occupation. Not Big Oil plundering their resources. Not
Washington, London and Paris deciding what's "best" for Libya.

Not settling for servitude under monstrous rulers there to destroy their
life force, spirit, and will to say this won't stand!

Not surrendering on their knees. Choosing death on their feet instead,
committed to struggle for real liberation. Willing to pay the price
because the alternative is too grim to accept, and won't be.

Through at least August 27, independent journalists remained trapped,
virtual prisoners, inside Tripoli's Corinthia Hotel, unable to provide
real news and commentaries on this and other vital events in Tripoli and
other areas.

Their reports are sorely missed. Hopefully efforts continue to free them
safely to return home.

On August 26, the International Action Center headlined, "LIBYA -
Resistance to US/NATO Conquest Continues," saying:

Ahead expect social services ended, public ones privatized, and freedom
on the chopping block to be lost. Planned is a new Western version of
Libya, replacing a socially responsible one under Gaddafi.

It was a key reason why he was targeted for removal so corporate
predators could swoop in to pick apart Libya's corpse.

As a result, spoils will be divvied up among them. Then on to the next
target, and ones after that until all Africa, the Middle East and
Central Asia are colonized, occupied by one means or other, and
plundered.

In fact, parasitic pillaging is Washington's idea of free market
triumphalism, including privatizing public enterprises, regulatory
freedom, tax cuts for the rich, impoverishing the rest, exploiting them,
corporate handouts, and militarized control for enforcement.

It supports the Bilderberg notion of a global classless society - a New
World Order with rulers and serfs. No middle class, no unions, no
democracy, no equity or justice, just empowered oligarchs, freed to do
as they please under a universal legal system benefitting them.

It's right out of Milton Friedman's play book, articulated in his 1962
book, "Capitalism and Freedom," saying:

"only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When a
crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are
lying around...our basic function (is) to develop alternatives to
existing policies (and be ready to roll them out when the) impossible
becomes the politically inevitable."

Everything else in public hands is socialism, an ideology he called
blasphemous. He said markets work best unfettered of rules, regulations,
onerous taxes, trade barriers, "entrenched interests," human
interference, and the best government is practically none.

In other words, anything government does business does better so let it.
Ideas about democracy, social justice, and a caring society, he believed
were verboten because they interfere with free-wheeling capitalism.

He said public wealth should be in private hands, profit accumulation
unrestrained, corporate taxes abolished, and social services curtailed
or ended. He believed "economic freedom is an end to itself (and) an
indispensable means toward (achieving) political freedom."

Applied to Libya, neither one is possible unless popular resistance
prevents or regains what Washington and its allies plan to take, leaving
nothing but servitude for Libyans.

That harsh reality has to be resisted, no matter what it takes or for
how long. Hopefully, Libyans are up to the task. Given their rage
against planned NATO occupation and plunder, very likely quitting is
something they don't contemplate.

Remember John Lennon's lyrics imagining "Nothing to kill or die
for....Living life in peace, and "hop(ing) someday....the world will
live as one."

So why not if enough in it try.

Accomplishing tough things take a while. The impossible takes a little
longer.

Step one is ending Friedman's version of the best of all possible
worlds, NATO, and corporate occupation of Washington.

Achieving that would be a major step toward freeing Libyans and perhaps
finishing the job elsewhere for the kind of world everyone deserves.

It's there for the taking with enough commitment.

Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.

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